Maps

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Free

Designed from the ground up for Windows Phone, the new Maps app is now here!
✓ HERE Drive – Get offline, turn-by-turn voice-guided GPS navigation
✓ 3D maps & 3D compass mode – Explore what's around you in 3D and use 3D compass mode to find and orient yourself on the map
✓ Live traffic & incidents – See real-time traffic conditions, road info and incident reports
✓ Street Side view & see inside – Tour cities in 360-degree panorama and see inside restaurants, museums and more
✓ Place Search – Find local results with useful info such as ratings, price, distance, opening hours (with open now indicators), and discover the best spots in town with place photos and local reviews
✓ Voice Search & voice commands – Control the app with voice and speak your search queries instead of typing
✓ True offline maps – Download maps for any regions and save on data costs or use them later when you're not connected to the internet

It's ok, sometimes. Often it will take the longest route possible. Even when settings are set to fastest or shortest. Added an extra hour➕ to our drive and we missed our friends at take off. Bammersauce!

Improved? More difficult. I'm rolling, trying to get directions and too many options pop up. Improvement would have been voice guidance. Now it doesn't "talk to" Waze very well either. Should select "Directions," then "Use Waze," then Waze should work, but it doesn't.

There is no option to turn off the 3D view; I prefer the flat view always. There seems to be an inconsistency in when random points are dropped on the map. When you select a destination (restaurant, store, etc), the top of the listing is the street view image. Because the image takes longer to load than the text, the text for directions will shift down when the image loads. Often when I'm trying to get directions, I end up in street view. I appreciate the option to show subways on the map.

The app is very well done but traffic colors are hard to see against the map colors, printed labels to small to read while preoccupied keeping a car on the road, and the Bing POI locations are wrong so often that I will use occasionally use Google as tool of first choice to find things when it absolutely positively has to be right the first time.